Dying Quotes

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and-what will perhaps make you wonder more-it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!"

~Jim Elliot